Cherbourg dorm girls / Jeannie Mok
- Bib ID:
- 3544779
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Mok, Jeannie
- Description:
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- Fortitude Valley, Qld. : Multicultural Community Centre, 2005
- xvii, 86 p. : ill., maps, ports. ; 21 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0958157332
- Summary:
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Features vignettes of 12 Aboriginal women who grew up in the dormitories of the Cherbourg Mission near Murgon. These women who are now in their fifties and sixties, have emotional stories to tell of how they survived dreadful periods of pain and deprivation.
- Subject:
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- Children, Aboriginal Australian -- Institutional care -- Queensland -- Cherbourg
- Women, Aboriginal Australian -- Queensland -- Biography
- Child welfare - Children's homes
- History - Biographies - Indigenous
- Social organisation - Elders
- Settlement and contacts - Government settlements, reserves
- Cherbourg Aboriginal Settlement (Qld.)
- Cherbourg / Barambah (SE Qld SG56-10)
- Murgon (SE Qld SG56-10)
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2005
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